SORRY
ADJECTIVES
► ALL SNOT AND TEARS sorry, remorseful, mournful → Brit. sl.
► ECKY sorry → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL-PAID very sorry → 1882 Sc.
► RANK sorry → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNFAIN not glad or delighted; displeased, sorry, sorrowful; reluctant; having a feeling of dislike; unfond → 1338 arch. exc. Eng. dial.
VERBS
► BE ILL PAID to be sorry → 1825 Sc.
► VEX to feel sorry, to be distressed, to grieve → 1825 Sc.
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